New player having problems with the game

[LunaFaye]

I only just finished 2.4 ARR and I have to say no so far. There will be forced dungeons and trials queues on hard difficulty along the way. Although I already got used to it. The quests does not get any better. It will be the same and typical quest line you have already experience but the story does get a bit more interesting IMO. As you progress, the game will require a lot more involvements on the social aspect, tight mechanics, boring quests and long cutscenes. You know when you get to high level stuffs, you made mistakes, you die, people gonna hate you and you will cry in the corner thinking why am I suck at this game.
I am over exaggerating. You'll be fine.

If there is one thing I could ask for, I really hope that SE could implement an option to activate the PVP combo system unto PVE. While for the rest, I can still manage and currently enjoying my 30mins queues.

Pretty much this and it will continue all the way to 70. At 70 you will jump on the other wagon that's called weekly tome stone cap. But the method is still the same, roulette -> dungeons -> trials -> primals -> raid regular/savage if you're interested in that, rinse and repeat. In between leveling character jobs or fully new alts.

The story does get better if you like story. I do not, and while I could barely make it through the ARR story, HW I fully skipped because it was that bad, SB on the other hand is kinda interesting. FFXIV is more of a social mmo compared to other ones, and while you can play it solo for most of the part, you can't avoid having to group with people or run specific dungeons/trial for your story to continue. If that's not what you enjoy, sad to say but might as well stop now and move on. It ain't get any faster or less story/dungeon based content.

[Gumbercules]

The game pics up considerably at certain points in both lvl and story "chapters", that said i really don't know what to tell you. I mean if you are really that "miserable" playing even at the low levels there is a high chance that early experience will just follow you throughout your time playing ff 14 and sour everything else by association. For example i find the low lvls very "basic" but at no point do i feel it to be unbearable, though admittedly since I already know the game i also realize imma be past it faster than a completely new player. The real question is do you feel it could ever get good enough for you to tolerate something you feel is unpleasant enough that it required outside "feedback" for you.

[MaFi0s0]

I suggest you take up a crafting or gathering profession to fill the time while you wait in DPS queue, DPS queues are longer in every MMO.

[CryBloodwing]

1. When a Lancer becomes a Dragoon and gets skills around level 50+, the combat becomes very fun.

2. I personally do not pay attention to the story so I do not know if it gets better.

3. Dungeons tend to stay about the same in terms of fun, but other things you can get like raids are the best. These can be very hard and the bosses have some interesting mechanics. As a DPS, your queue time is not likely to get better...it may even get worst when you get to StormBlood content. Many people do not heal that content, and the new classes are both DPS. As of now, not many are doing ARR dungeons. I am having queue problems as a healer. They could get better in SB due to more players doing the content, or worst due to more DPS.

4. Quests later become less walk around and talk to people.

I would say to stick with it until level 50 at least. 50 is where you get all the fun stuff to do.

[Noldornir]

Well IMHO that's the MAJOR problem of this game.

I've been playing FFs since ages and i fell in love with the stories depth. Well written plots in the plots and shocking moments were its power and fuel.

In FF VII or X (for example) you used to be HAPPY when you reached a new city/location with the long-fighting phases which tended to be boring.

Do not expect this to be the same kind of experience or it'll hit you like a mack truck full of disappointment, you'll be doing fetch quests even later on (actually all the quests up to now have been like this to me).


Worst thing is you can't even "skip" the questline since it unlocks most game content.

ATM i'm LvL 48 PAL but still stuck in 38 lvl main quests (while unlocked/completed higher lvl 47 dungeons which are better).

Unfortunately there's just a TON of BORING/WORTHLESS quests while i still need to find a cool one (i'm not counting dungeons/trials as part of the quest here since the quest is just an excuse to lock the content behind something in my opinion and not a part of it).

If you cant be bothered with it anymore you can buy these

Tales Of Adventure

from the mog station.

While dungeons so far have been indeed boring for you (due to being too easy) that is going to change around lvl 35+ dungeons. This is a nice thing so that ppl take confidence with the system before engaging more serious business (around lvl 40 there are mechanics in which one person messing up could easily translates in group-wipes).

Also remember that there are many things you probably dont know that you should do (what targets to hit, NOT to pull, if/when to swap a target not to draw enmity). You are probably not doing them yet but i encourage you starting looking into em or you'll be in trouble later on.

Doing DPS WHILE switching targets and paying attention to these things gets harder hence more satisfing

[Raldo]

Way to bump a thread from 2017. I really wonder how people do that. Like, how did you even arrive at this thread?

The OP is long gone by now.

[Noldornir]

My bad for necroposting, didnt realize.

As to satisfy your curiosity:

There's this thing called "Google" where you can look for any kind of info. Shame is the results from form posts are not ordered so it's really easy to find a couple years ago thread.
This happens cause spiders and grabbers which indexes the web for us does not read the post dates (as we humans often don't).

In this case both them and me failed in checking the date.

These kinda things may be bothering; if I google for your name (Raldo Volca) the page that pops up tells me that in 2014 you killed shiva (and nothing else); that doesn't mean you did nothing since 2014 OC but one might be mislead.

Usually necroposting is for this reason (when unintentional) while when intentional is just to make the post counter grow bigger (in this case the phenomena is not limited to a few posts but usually the user replies to a lot of em.